Author: Jacqui

Like every year, I exuberantly celebrate America’s birthday. I’d say times are tough here in the US, but that seems to be true everywhere in the world. So, I won’t complain. I will enjoy the love of America as all of my international friends love their homeland.

This one–Chris Stapleton–4 Million views since Super Bowl 2023:

Here’s the feel-good video for all patriots. If you missed this viral video from the Navy Women’s Lacrosse team, enjoy!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u-dsWFOiOIg?si=cKUCB-4A082Uo4zb

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Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing details on our blog (Ask a Tech Teacher) about Structured Learning resources to get your new school year started. These are often collected into back-to-school survival kits. Purchase one of those with the coupon code:

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Offer expires Sept. 15, 2024

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Here are the most-read posts for the past month:

1. The Future of Online Learning: Benefits and Strategies for Educators
2. How to Teach Financial Literacy Using Real-World Examples
3. How Virtual Information Sessions Are Changing K-12 Education
4. Incorporating Monthly Giving Projects into STEM Curriculum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Philanthropists
5. How Cloud Security Empowers Online Learning Platforms
6. How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar
7. June is Internet Safety Month
8. World Environment Day: Living Responsibly with Nature
9. 11 Online Resources About Animation

Here’s a preview of what’s coming up (these may change as scheduling adapts to reader needs): (more…)

Here are the most-read posts for the past month:

1. Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer
2. Tech Tips to End the School Year
3. AI has potential to upend student testing
4. A Typing Website With a Twist
5. 5 Innovative Tech Projects for High Schoolers
6. How do you teach the hard to teach class? Watch the video.
7. How to Track My Child’s Location
8. 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students
9. May Is Homeschool Awareness Month–Check our Subscriber Special
10. Ethics and the Use of AI in Essays

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June 4th-6th:

Buy any K-8 School License

get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased

(Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only)

Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. Between June 4th-6th get two per grade level. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

To take advantage of this special, purchase from Structured Learning with PayPal or a PO. Email us (admin at structuredlearning dot net) with your proof of purchase. We’ll send the extra books.

What is a school license?

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Earlier this month, we posted books you might like to read this summer. Now, we’ll focus on what do you want to accomplish with your summer? Here are popular AATT articles. Pick the ones that suit you:

How to Keep Learning Fresh Over the Summer

15 Skills To Learn this Summer and Use Next Year

6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Here’s How to Motivate Summer School Students

Seven Fun Math Activities for the Summer Break

How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

15 Skills Teachers Can Learn this Summer and Use in Next Year’s Classroom

5 Apps to learn this summer

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Wrapping up your school technology for the summer is as complicated as setting it up in September. There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation. If you have a school device, a lot of the shutdown steps will be done by the IT folks as they backup, clean, reformat, and maybe re-image your device. If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated.

Here’s a list. Skip those that don’t apply to you and complete the rest. I won’t take time in this article for a how-to on each activity so if you don’t know how to complete one, check with your IT folks or DDG (Duck Duck Go–or Google) it:

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Mother’s Day in the United States is annually held on the second Sunday of May. This year, that’s May 14th. It celebrates motherhood and it is a time to appreciate mothers and mother figures. Many people give gifts, cards, flowers, candy, a meal in a restaurant or other treats to their mother and mother figures, including grandmothers, great-grandmothers, stepmothers, and foster mothers (click for updates to the list):.

1. Mother’s Day activities
2. Mother’s Day Activities from 
3. Mother’s Day cards
4. Mother in different languages
5. Mother’s Day Quotes
6. Mother’s Day Sayings
7. Mother’s Day Templates from Canva

Anyone have some favorite websites to share? My list isn’t terribly robust.

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May is Homeschool Awareness Month. To support homeschoolers all over the world, this month’s Subscriber Special is for them:

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May 7-10, 2024

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Tech Teacher Appreciation Week

If you wonder what’s so hard about being a teacher, what with technology, computers, AI assistants, look at this list of challenges they faced just last year: (more…)